Celebration of Kurdish Cinema
The Amsterdam Kurdish Film Festival (AKFF) showcases films that capture the diversity of Kurdish voices, stories and dreams, and provides a platform for Kurdish filmmakers. From 9-11 May in the Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.
The opening film will be 1988 by Hezhwan Zendi.
Synopsis:
In the winter of the year 1988 in the most intense era of the Iran – Iraq war, the Kurdish rebel fighters (Peshmarga) engaged in their activities against the Baath’s party in the border town of Halabja. This multiple storyline film tells the true stories of families in Halabja, such as Omari Khawar and the story of the peshmerga’s, in the months leading up to 16 March 1988, the day Halabja was bombed with chemical weapons. including that of Omari Khawar and of a revolutionary Peshmarga who falls in love with a school teacher during one of his activities inside the town.
Follow the website of AKFF to get updated about the rest of the program.
And on May 7, just two days before the festival starts in Amsterdam, the Kurdish filmmaker and artistic director of the festival Reber Dosky will be our guest in The Hague for Off the Map. He will show some clips of his movies and tell us about his work and recent developments in Kurdistan. Join us!